Joaquín Setantí
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Joaquín Setantí was an important figure in the municipality of Barcelona
at the beginning of the seventeenth century. He contributed several monographs to the movement known as tacitism including Frutos de historia (1590). His collection of moral aphorisms, Centellas de varios conceptos (1614), stands out, due to its originality. Setantí was a precursor of Baltasar Gracián
and of the other great cultivators of aphorisms during the Spanish Baroque
. His 500 dense Centellas (sparks) are said to "reveal a modern political and personal attitude that marks an important milestone in Spanish sententious literature".
Barcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...
at the beginning of the seventeenth century. He contributed several monographs to the movement known as tacitism including Frutos de historia (1590). His collection of moral aphorisms, Centellas de varios conceptos (1614), stands out, due to its originality. Setantí was a precursor of Baltasar Gracián
Baltasar Gracián
Baltasar Gracián y Morales, SJ was a Spanish Jesuit and baroque prose writer. He was born in Belmonte, near Calatayud .-Biography:...
and of the other great cultivators of aphorisms during the Spanish Baroque
Spanish Baroque
Spanish Baroque is a strand of Baroque architecture that evolved in Spain and its provinces and former colonies, notably Spanish America and Belgium....
. His 500 dense Centellas (sparks) are said to "reveal a modern political and personal attitude that marks an important milestone in Spanish sententious literature".